Speakers at SCIP's European Conference.
by Carolina Olivieri
The SCIP European Conference in London, UK from 22 to 24 October will be an exciting event for CI professionals by bringing forth not only a European perspective, but a global one as well. To highlight some of our exciting speakers: Richard Smart from Pfizer will present on Environmental Analysis; Anja Kober of Deutsche Telekom will present on Scenario Analysis to Design Early Warning Systems and Strategies; and John Hughes Wilson, an author and broadcaster specializing in military history, defense and intelligence matters, will present a session on Business Lessons from Military Intelligence. See the full article for additional presenters and their topics.
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CI in China.
by Matthew Fish
The focus of this article is to combine “best-of-class” CI practices commonly used abroad, practices commonly used in China, and our experience as practitioners of CI to help companies get a head start in the China market. We include some 'nuts and bolts' of setting up a CI system tailored to your company and the China market.
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CI 101 and 202: a tour of intelligence.
by Michael Sandman
CI 101 is probably the most widely attended course in SCIP’s portfolio of educational programs. CI 202 is the companion course designed to go one step further up the ladder (www.scip.org/boston/callforpapers.asp, Cambridge MA, Sept. 22-23). Part of their attraction is the capability and personality of its instructor, Mike Sandman. In this article Mike reviews the key objectives and benefits of this training session.
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Award nominations close September 5.
by Barbara Orr
The nominations for the SCIP Meritorious, Fellow, and Catalyst awards close on September 5th. If you know of an individual whose work qualifies them for an award, please nominate them. The nomination forms can be downloaded from http://www.scip.org/about/awcrit.asp.
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Patinformatics part 3: a review of the tools.
by Anthony Trippe
In part 1 (issue 31) we looked at the general idea of patinformatics and discussed various elements of the intelligence cycle with regards to patent analysis. In part 2 (issue 34) we focused on data and text mining as they apply to patents and presented some thoughts on a linear workflow for patinformatics. This series of articles continues with a discussion of various tools that are currently available for conducting patinformatics work.
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Share your expertise, grow as a CI professional: SCIP04 proposals due September 1.
The SCIP04 annual conference program committee is now accepting proposals for presentations for the March 22-25 Boston program, CI is the Future: intelligence drives success. They are particularly interested in receiving submissions from corporate practitioners and those interested in sharing unique and cutting edge ideas with peers from around the globe. Submission deadline is September 1.
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Help us enforce your privacy.
The use of information from the SCIP Membership Direcory for solicitations, commercial activities, fax or e-mail broadcasts, telemarketing, or direct mail purposes is strictly prohibited. Please contact SCIP immediately if you feel that you have been contacted in this manner.
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CI author: Mark Robinson.
by Bonnie Hohhof
Mark Robinson recently published his first CI book: Beyond Competitive Intelligence: the Practice of counterintelligence and trade secrets protection, from 1st books. To be successful in today’s economic climate, a company needs to practice not only competitive intelligence (CI) but also make use of counterintelligence techniques and develop processes to protect its trade secrets. Simply put, CI is offense and counterintelligence is defense.
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Avoiding surprises: four steps to mobilizing for competitive advantage.
by Fred Wergeles
Most information needed by senior managers can be found by tapping into the collective wisdom of their own employees. The principal challenge is in asking them the right questions and establishing an effective process to receive and manage the answers. Here is a four-step approach a company can use to avoid future surprises.
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FYI: new and notable.
by Bonnie Hohhof
To make the FYI section shorter and easier to read, it has been broken up into several sections. Please click on the [FULL TEXT] links at the end of each description listed below to go to that specific section.
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Search engines: news and updates.
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Internet sites with information you can use.
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Software and products.
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Searching reviews and tips.
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General readings of interest.
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Articles mentioning competitive intelligence.
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